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Brazilian Mass Murderer Who Slipped U.S. Vetting Three Times Added to CIS Database
By Todd Bensman on February 20, 2025 Antonio Jose De Abreu Vidal Filho of Brazil. Photo from an ICE press release. A former state police officer in Brazil arrested and charged in Brazil for taking part in the murder of 11 teenagers but who still got into the United States on a tourist visa and stayed for years […]
American Guns Are Not to Blame for Mexico’s Cartel Problem
The country’s demand to suppress U.S. gun trafficking is unmoored from facts. By Todd Bensman as published February 19, 2025 President Trump’s recent deal with Mexico has that country deploying 10,000 troops to the border. But America’s commitments in agreement have gone insufficiently examined. “For the first time, the U.S. government will work jointly to avoid […]
Will Mexico Face A Hot Shooting War With The Cartels?
As Mexico prepares to position 10,000 troops between cartels and their drug money, odds are the lead will fly By Todd Bensman Feb 7, 2025 DailyWire.com AUSTIN, Texas – The chosen political slogan of Mexico’s last and current president, “Abrazos, no balazos” (“Hugs, not Bullets”), is often embraced to describe official government policy toward the country’s ultra-violent […]
What’s Happening in Mexico Now?
Trump’s blockaded border has forced Mexico to support thousands of foreign migrants, a burden familiar to the United State Mexican National Guard soldiers stand watch toward the Guatemala border 2021 By Todd Bensman as published February 5, 2025 by the Center for Immigration Studies Mexico is struggling to manage a swollen population of restive foreign nationals blocked […]
Todd Bensman On Confronting The Cartels: “I Think Things Are Gonna Go Kinetic”
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‘Injustice Porn’: Get Ready for the Next Big Thing on the Immigration Front
Time for Americans to recognize it as political manipulation, call it out as exploitative, and push back By Todd Bensman on January 21, 2025 Anyone wondering what kind of skullduggery is afoot to defeat the new Trump Administration’s imminent deportation operations need look no further than Bakersfield in Kern County in California’s Central Valley. Surprise Border Patrol […]
To President-Elect Trump: Beware of Duplicitous Mexican ‘Ant Operations’ to Hide a Mad Border Rush
By Todd Bensman on November 7, 2024 AUSTIN, Texas — In a New York Post column this week, I revised my earlier dark warnings that Mexico would likely unleash hundreds of thousands of migrants yearning to cross the U.S. Southwest border before Donald Trump could win a second term, take office, and dam the whole border up. I wrote […]
The Remedies: How to Lower the Risk of New Terror Strikes by Border-Crossing Islamist Extremists – First Blood, Part 3
U.S.-bound Mauritanian migrants in Costa Rica near the Nicaraguan border. 2022 Photo by Todd Bensman. By Todd Bensman on January 8, 2025 (Part 3 of 3; Part 1, Part 2.) CHICAGO, Illinois – So a border-crossing illegal immigrant has finally conducted a terror attack just as the FBI Director and the U.S. intelligence community has warned with increasing frequency […]
Part II of ‘First Blood Series’: Mystery Terrorist – The Unknown Life and Violent Times of Illegal Border-Crosser Sidi Mohammad Abdallahi
A Chicago Police officer shoots Mauritanian terrorist in a quiet Jewish neighborhood of Chicago.(Part 2 of 3 See Part I First Blood: Anatomy of a Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack) By Todd Bensman as published January 7, 2025 by the Center for Immigration StudiesCHICAGO, Illinois – If ever there was a magic moment for Americans to […]
First Blood: Anatomy of Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack Pt. 1
Broad implications for the United States from the first accused Islamic terrorist to illegally cross the southern border and shoot an American for jihad By Todd Bensman on January 6, 2025 Sidi Mohammad Abdallahi “I can tell you the threats that come from the other side of the border are very much consuming FBI field offices, not […]
“Temporary Protected Status” Is a Fraud
by Todd Bensman Immigrants lived for years in safe nations that should take them back. Expect conflict when President-elect Donald Trump revokes, as planned, the “Temporary Protected Status (TPS)” program that President Joe Biden massively expanded to shield almost one million immigrants from deportation. Biden did so on grounds that these illegally present immigrants cannot be returned […]
EXCLUSIVE: The bizarre new rumor about Biden that’s convincing TRAIN-SURFING migrants to rush to the US in the next 48 hours
By TODD BENSMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 12:01 EST, 16 December 2024 | Updated: 13:08 EST, 16 December 2024 HUEHUETOCA, Mexico – There were no signs of human life, just railroad tracks and a rough dirt road, six miles west of a small Mexican mountain town. But this was definitely the place described to me. On a recent trip to Mexico City’s sprawling migrant […]
EXCLUSIVE: What I discovered inside teeming Mexican migrant camps that proves Trump’s hardline policy is already working
By TODD BENSMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 08:51 EST, 10 December 2024 | Updated: 08:55 EST, 10 December 2024 President-elect Donald Trump won’t take office for another five weeks, but his election is already causing a sea change in America’s illegal immigration crisis. In sprawling migrant camps across Mexico City, people are giving up their plans to cross into the United States and are instead […]
Biden And Harris Fly Migrants In From The Bougiest Places On Earth Under Guise Of ‘Humanitarianism’
BY: TODD BENSMAN SEPTEMBER 27, 2024 4 MIN READ They’re flying them in from Europe, the Caribbean, and even Australia. For a short time, the Biden-Harris administration paused its legally dubious “humanitarian parole” program flying foreigners to the U.S., after discovering that thousands of the required U.S.-based financial “sponsors” were fraudsters or didn’t exist. Having already imported more than 500,000 […]